ERIC LEE / NEW YORK TIMES Kitty Simonds, far right, executive director of the Honolulu ­-based Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council, was in the Oval Office on Thursday as President ...

President Trump signs a raft of Executive Orders in the Oval Office aimed to boost commercial fishing in American Samoa.

In an Oval Office clip, Trump is seen accepting the traditional Polynesian lei, which he was told signifies royal status in ...

The new executive order will open up to Pacific waters to the American Samoa territories for commercial fishing, as Chinese and other vessels are kept at bay.

After Trump signed an executive order on "Unleashing American Commercial Fishing in the Pacific," a delegation from the territory presented him with a lei.